GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| lode | waterway |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| decipher | decode |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| circlet | a little circle |